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It's become a sprawling urban area dependent on dirty fuel, dirty energy, particularly coal.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
Then in my late 20s, I shifted to the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai, and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter.
You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.
The girl, my old love, the last lost time I saw her when she came to find me at a party, her drunkenly stumbling, falling, sprawling, skirt hiked, eyes veined red, swollen with tears, her shame, her dishonor.
Sprawling cities or declining cities could see this as an opportunity to rebuild a social infrastructure rooted in justice and fairness.
Around lunchtime, the sprawling temple rises out of the desert ahead.
Now we have sprawling residential suburbias that are well distinct from production areas and commercial areas.
This film pretty much proves that as despite the simplistic plot; it's a sprawling mess and overall, I'd even have to go as far as to say that Tragic Ceremony is WORSE than Freda's insipid Giallo effort, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire.
A sprawling, overambitious, plotless comedy that has no dramatic center.
only good thing about this movie is those green , sprawling land scapes , winding roads, and pleasant cinematography.
Just a sprawling mess.
A widowed mother Karen Tunny(Lori Heuring)inherits a home in the Pennsylvania mountains; so she takes her two daughters and moves into the sprawling estate in what seems the middle of nowhere.
It's a small, yet somehow sprawling masterpiece taking the viewer from Manhattan glitz to the beauty of the Greek islands.
The book was ambitious and sprawling, its magical-realist elements and vivid use of language seemingly impossible to represent on screen.
To the studio's credit, they avoided the sprawling, unnecessary, big budget technofest that typifies movies of this ilk.
Tom Wolfe's sprawling, brilliantly observed satiric novel of life among New York snobbery gets a glossy look here but is nevertheless not well served.
"Rois et Reine" is a sprawling mess of a movie which will probably irritate as many viewers as it delights.
What was needed was someone with vision enough to pull together the positive elements by reworking the script into some kind of coherent whole, instead of the sprawling, awkward mess that it is, (try to figure out the motivations and interplay if you can).
This is a sprawling (4 hours) remake of the Rider Haggard story, with the usual added female and an extraneous subplot with Russian soldiers seeking a "Stone of Power" buried along with the treasure of King Solomon.
Michael Bowen plays an innocentish young man who hitchhikes a thousand miles to visit his absentee millionaire father (the creepy Ray Wise) at a sprawling, windmill-powered ranch and ends up tangled in the dangerous web of his young, scheming and seductive stepmother from hell (the yummy Clare Wren), thus causing trouble for the already dysfunctional family.
A good film with--for its time--an intense, sprawling, rather dark story somewhat reminiscent of John Ford's "The Searchers" though not so brutal.
"When A Stranger Calls" would have worked better as a short, independent film strongly emphasizing its bravura opening instead of plunging into the sprawling mess we get here.
The film follows young Stiles as he confronts a perplexing supernatural mystery that engulfs his grandfather's sprawling estate.
Young people work at Beijing's 114-acre "World Park", a sprawling Chinese Disneyland that displays scale models of famous landmarks such as The Eiffel Tower, The Pyramids of Egypt, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Taj Mahal, and The Vatican.
But I am sure that in the final seconds, as Grieg is running up the street to his home and Nina, his arms swinging as one's arms do when running, he passes a young girl traveling in the opposite direction - and his hand smacks her rump sending her sprawling off camera . . .
Using his signature directing style (fluid camera movement, rack focusing, uncomfortably close two-shots), he creates a sprawling visual masterpiece loaded with social commentary as he explores the story of a man caught in a downward spiral in the underworld.
Its dense, so dense, I'd say Lynch's most obtuse, sprawling and encompassing film since Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
America took almost 15 years to carry out its first drone strike in Pakistan’s sprawling Balochistan province, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership established its command-and-control structure there almost immediately after the US military intervention ousted it from Afghanistan.
A handful of metal prices cannot settle a sprawling Malthus vs. Cornucopia argument, just as a single data point for unemployment cannot be the final word in the dispute between Cowen and Caplan.
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